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Annual Report 2014
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Message from the Centre Director
Another year in the duty of CCS has passed and it is time to look back. With the urgent need for CCS
action, it is a great responsibility to lead one of the largest CCS R&D efforts world-wide. In BIGCCS we
have a continuous focus on improvement - both in how we carry out the research, what we focus on, but
also on howwe reach out with our results and innovative ideas for smart and efficient CCS. We are proud
of our new web. You are all invited to visit
www.bigccs.no.
Also this year we are proud to count our achievements and as this report shows they are many and
includes 19 innovations, 139 deliverables, 90 publications, seven newsletters, three new KPN projects,
several Climit Demo projects, nine oral presentations and nine posters at GHGT-12, and last, but not least
the Greenman Award which was given to Professor Hallvard Svendsen at GHGT-12.
In BIGCCS we are privileged to have a fantastic Scientific Committee lead by Professor May-Britt Hägg
from NTNU. This year I would like to pay a special tribute to the Scientific Committee and thank them for
the encouraging and valuable feedback on the scientific work and collaboration opportunities around
the world.
I would also like to express my gratitude to the BIGCCS Board for the fruitful discussions and very inter-
esting visit to GDF SUEZ’ offices in Paris last spring, where the Board also was offered the possibility to
visit the natural gas storage facility in Germigny-sous-Coulombs.
In BIGCCS we build trust between researchers representing many of the CCS research fields. This is
the strength of our Centre, and is shown in many of our results. Some examples are CO
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well integrity,
a completely new method for analyses of membrane systems, and CO
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pipeline integrity were a new
method for analysing fracture propagation and arrest is developed.
Enjoy the reading!
Dr. Mona Mølnvik